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TikToker Sumeera Rajput poisoned for refusing marriage in Pakistan's Ghotk
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
In yet another grim reflection of the worsening human rights situation in Pakistan, TikTok content creator Sumeera Rajput was found dead under suspicious circumstances at her home in the Bago Wah area of Sindh's Ghotki district, Geo News reported. The case has sparked outrage as allegations
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Human rights activist raises voice against women atrocities, discriminatio
Updated : 11 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Anila Gulzar, a Pakistani human rights activist from the Christian minority, has condemned systemic violence and gender discrimination against women in Pakistan, highlighting issues ranging from honour killings and forced marriages to workplace harassment and weak legal enforcement.
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Pak college implements restrictions on girl students' political participat
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
It's a grim reality that Pakistan ranks among the most challenging countries for women to live in, evident in the denial of social rights, discrimination, honour killings, rapes, abductions, marital abuses, forced marriages, and coerced abortions.
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Karachi girl's 'forceful' Nikkah ceremony video reveals controversy
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
According to the Nikkah Khawan (Qazi), the girl willingly consented to the marriage, despite lacking a national identity card (NIC) or B-form.
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UN experts lambast Pakistan for failing to stop forced conversions, marria
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
According to the same UN press release the experts expressed concern that forced marriages and religious conversions of girls from religious minorities which have been coerced are validated by the courts, often invoking religious law to justify keeping victims with their abductors rather tha
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UN experts condemn forced marriages, religious conversions in Pakistan
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
"Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence," the experts said in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday.
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Protests held against alleged abduction, forced marriage of underage girl
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Protest demonstrations took place in Hunza and Islamabad on Sunday in response to the alleged abduction and forced marriage of an underage girl from Gilgit Baltistan, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Hindu girl abducted, forcibly married in Sindh
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Despite her statement in the court, expressing her desire to be with her family, the additional session judge decided to send her to Darul Aman, the so-called safe house.
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Pakistan: Report highlights kidnapping, forced marriages of minorities
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
he religious minorities, mainly Hindu and Christian women and children continue to be oppressed and persecuted, at the same time facing the risk of being kidnapped, forcibly converted, raped, and coerced into a "marriage" with an older or elderly man, Gatestone Institute reported.
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Pakistan: Minor Hindu girl's "forced conversion" sparks tense debate in Si
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Pakistan, which is already struggling with the adverse political and economic situation and continues to bear the brunt of forced marriages and conversions
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Forced marriages, conversions continue in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
According to the data compiled by one of Christian Solidarity Worldwide's (CSW) local partners in Pakistan, the Centre for Social Justice, 202 incidents were recorded and documented between 2021-2022. Almost all of them took place within the Sindh and Punjab provinces.
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Plight of women in Pakistan deteriorates amid forced marriages, conversion
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
As women in Pakistan continue to bear the brunt of forced marriages and conversions, some have also succeeded to escape, bringing such incidents to light.
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